Fwd: CC Issue 19, Jan - Keep Hope Alive Says Chomsky

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Subject: CC Issue 19, Jan - Keep Hope Alive Says Chomsky
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Not Yet Time To Give Up Hope: Noam Chomsky
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz190111.htm

What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion ( weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested


House Rhetoricians v. Santa's Reindeers
By Subhankar Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee190111.htm

Will we take serious action this year on climate change so that all of us—including the House Rhetoricians and the Christian establishments of the world—can continue to tell the Rudolph and Santa story with a clear conscience, because we've taken steps to help Rudolph's family members survive, for the sake of all of our children?


Global Food Prices Hit Record High
By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon190111.htm

Food prices have hit record highs due to a string of crop failures together with an upsurge in speculation, resulting in rising living costs


Food Crises Pummel The Poor,
Austerity Multiplies Pain
By Raj Patel

http://www.countercurrents.org/patel190111.htm

More than a billion people went hungry in 2009, and the shock of the past two years has stripped assets away from the poor – in order to survive poverty, many have been involved in distress sales. The last two years' hunger and malnourishment will have indelibly affected an entire cohort of children. The recession has meant that more people are vulnerable to systemic shocks


The World At Risk
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury190111.htm

Crises the present world order has generated are pushing the entire world into uncertain and unsafe future. Our posterity will step in a volatile and unsafe world if the present world order is not changed. The mainstream's analysis cannot ignore the reality


Killer Technologies Will Not Increase
Our Food Production
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma190111.htm

Genetically modified (GM) crops are once again in the eye of a storm. With the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPM] taking a complete U-turn in its stated policy approach and now publicly supporting GM crops, the debate is heating up. National president of the All India Kisan Sabha, the farmers' wing of the CPM, SR Pillai, has recently called those who oppose GM crops as being 'superstitious'


Can We Trust Climate Models?
Increasingly, The Answer Is 'Yes'
By Michael D. Lemonick

http://www.countercurrents.org/lemonick190111.htm

Forecasting what the Earth's climate might look like a century from now has long presented a huge challenge to climate scientists. But better understanding of the climate system, improved observations of the current climate, and rapidly improving computing power are slowly leading to more reliable methods


Calculating The True Cost Of
Global Climate Change
By John Carey

http://www.countercurrents.org/carey190111.htm

Researchers disagree about what the economic costs of climate change will be over the coming decades. But the answer to that question is fundamental in deciding how urgent it is to take action to reduce emissions


Bradley Manning Walking In The Footsteps Of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese190111.htm

Americans need to support a true American patriot, Bradley Manning, if he did what he is accused, has put his life on the line to show us the truth about American foreign policy and to make us a better nation. Visit www.BradleyManing.org to join in his defense. And, then read the WikiLeaks documents and engage in discussion and debate with your fellow Americans. Join our efforts to change U.S. foreign policy



'Niyamgiri You Are Still Alive'
By Suma Joson

http://www.countercurrents.org/joson190111.htm

Here is the documentary film , 'Niyamgiri You Are Still Alive' By Suma Joson which won the Vasudha, Environment Award at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, 2010


Are You Proud Of Your Country? I'm Not!
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto190111.htm

This article has been torturing me for the last five years. I know I should have written it a long time ago, but either the World situation wasn't right, or I was was daunted by the thought of writing this narrative that I knew would be a task that I didn't really want to start. I take the blame for not writing this sooner, but we are all human and beset by inadequacy


Official Records In Jammu And Kashmir
'Murky' On 'Penalised' Securitymen!
By Syed Junaid Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi190111.htm

Official statements contradicting official reports and records only strengthen the impunity security forces enjoy in Jammu and Kashmir. Though several official statements have claimed penalisation of accused security men, but the records fail to shed light on the same. Who was penalized? When? Where and by Whom? These questions continue to puzzle


Ladakh's Winter Incarceration
By Meha Dixit

http://www.countercurrents.org/dixit190111.htm

The Indian state has been active in the development and reconstruction work in a number of neighbouring states such as Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka and for this purpose has donated large sums of money to these countries. However, round the year connectivity demand of the Ladakhi people seems to have fallen on deaf ears


A Deobandi As Modi's Brand Ambassador
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey190111.htm

Before you raise your eyebrows, do see things beyond the obvious. The new Darul Uloom vice-chancellor, Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, has given his stamp of approval to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Shocked? Don't be. They both essentially perpetuate the same schema of religion as the subterranean text


Israeli Racism
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman190111.htm

Israel's curriculum must change. Hate must be expunged. Arabs must be allowed to represent themselves and their culture rather than accept false dehumanization and vilification characterizations for not being Jews


Baby Doc Duvalier In Haiti
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman190111A.htm

With more troubles than Job, Haitians now have another after former dictator Jean-Claude Baby Doc's arrival

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